How Bioethicists Can Respond to the Moment by Learning from the Past

How Bioethicists Can Respond to the Moment by Learning from the Past

Modern bioethics emerged largely as a response to the atrocities of Nazi Germany, including state-sanctioned genocide on an unprecedented scale, cruel experimentation on the vulnerable in the name of “science,” forced sterilization, and systematic murder of the ill, infirm, and “unfit.” As the scope of these atrocities became apparent, we witnessed how technological advances of the industrial revolution merged with the design and operationalizat…